Negotiating space: power, restraint, and privileges of immunity in early medieval Europe

Pt. I. Prohibition. 1. Late Antique Traditions. 2. Entry and Encroachment. 3. The "Secret Enclosure" 4. The Heyday of Merovingian Immunities

Pt. II. Control. 5. "Playing a New Tune": The Carolingians. 6. A Meeting of Minds

Pt. III. Divergence. 7. A Gift-Giving King. 8. The Making of the Sacred Ban. 9. "A Man's House Is His Castle": Anglo-American Echoes. Conclusion. Political Theory on the Ground

App. 1. An Immunity of King Theuderic III (October 30, 688): ChLA 13:90-91, no. 570

App. 2. A Comparison of Key Clauses in Gorze, no. 4, and Marculf, no. 1

App. 3. An Immunity of Charlemagne (December 6, 777): ChLA 19:28-33, no. 679

App. 4. Carolingian Immunities and Asylum